UNLABELLED: Lipase specificity is a crucial requirement for industrial employment
however, tuning the lipase specificity in some cases can impair the structure and affect its stability. To enhance the T1 lipase specificity, we targeted the conserved bulky residue Phe180 in the lid domain to eliminate the impact of steric hindrance, as it constrains substrate accession to the enzyme active site and affects specificity. This residue was pre-substituted with a small side chain residue by utilizing DynaMut2 software to ensure that this substitution did not affect lipase stability. Phe180Cys was chosen because it exhibited a stabilizing effect by showing (ΔΔ SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13205-025-04330-5.